If the online community is willing to pay him $7,000 for a coin he paid less than $600 for, who are we to complain? :) I asked him how he...
Coin could also be in a white core Coin World shell. They use the same cores except they don't have the ANACS logo on the corner, which doesn't...
The weak edge letters are caused by the distance between the roller (which forces the coin against the edge die) and the edge lettering die being...
No. The gunk is hard enough to cause indents in the planchet upon striking, but not in the hardened steel of the dies. No they can't, they cause...
And you are presuming that he doesn't have permission. He could very easily have asked permission to use the images. (I know, that's why you say...
For bullion coins the mint uses the $25 face value for 1/2oz gold coins. For other 1/2 gold coins such as the commemorative pieces they fll back...
Not a split planchet. This is an acid job. Sorry.
Right, he should have gotten the generic email that they only deal with member banks and not the general public.
Those three wll be fun. The 99 and 04 will be costly. It is possible to get a 96 draped bust at a reasonable price (reasonable is a relative...
The second one has just had the heck beaten out of it. It's just damaged.
Up until about 10 years ago, the mint shipped cent to the Fed in canvas bags of 5,000 cents each, These are what people are talking about when...
If you can have a slipped edge error that means that they are NOT being made in a one step method and that means the edge is being lettered in a...
It looks like it is struck through a VERY late stage die cap. The cap has been pounded so many times that it has thined out to the thickness of a...
Can someone explain how you can have weak edge lettering on a proof coin? The coin is struck twice and the the planchet expands against the...
If you are talking about the PDF attachment, sure I don't mind. Would be nice if you credit the source but if you don't I won't get too upset....
Thanks, didn't know about attachments. There is now an attached PDF file in my previous post.
Story must not be accurate. No report of a plain edge yet, but there was a report on the NGC forum of a "slipped" edge error. (edge inscriptions...
I think it is a "Texas nickel" that has been beaten between a couple pieces of leather so that it would spread out in size, and then it has been...
Have you looked at the number of local banks in the US that issued their own currency? There were over 10,000 chartered banks after 1862 issuing...
Cents were not legal tender until April 22nd 1864 at which time they received a limited legal tender status to the amount of no more than 10 cents...
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